The Ideal And The Ideal

Ming dynasty attention to books, education, and publication policy relaxed, writing rich, engraving to flourish, which prints prospered has a significant impact. Ming dynasty appear capitalism, commodity economy activity, public sector expanded, stimulate the book industry development. Novels, dramas copious illustrations printmaking became the mainstream of printmaking. Due to the different region, emergence of regional prints, Formed Jianan, Jinling, Xinan three Graphic Arts Schools, Wulin, Wuxing, Suzhou, and other local schools. Ming dynasty people long-term exploration version and appears multicolor printing of arch flowers, woodcut printing technology to produce a qualitative leap. The European Renaissance of social and cultural reform era, the commodity boom, the public class expansion. Many prints, books, printed widespread. Prints created a lot of attempts for the future creation and development of the foundation and soil. Multicolour woodblock print, dry etching of painting and etching copper intaglio techniques in this period appear and develop. Ming print creative artist intervention to graphic creation, professional painters and woodcut artist emerged Chinese prints a qualitative leap, graphic representation of the literati. The same period of the Renaissance wave of European prints flies high culture and human breath.The Ming Dynasty and the Renaissance of Europe art, one major difference:Ming Dynasty painting does not have a competitive. But European art as it is a labor of products, in exchange for profits to the community may participate in redistribution of social wealth, and therefore competitive. In European society, through competition, people can each area through the efforts of the upper ranks of society, honours, but Ming dynasty art competition weak, during the same period of the Ming dynasty was not a folk painter, carving was a meteoric rise to equal opportunities. Ming literati painting different from the painter labor of Service, and the Ming Dynasty not provide painters to achieve upward social mobility and access to class honors competition, so the lack of promoting class status increase the chance of the painter struggling power consumption deleted, making Chinese art in the lower social also lack the vitality of the overall situation in the shake, but also makes the Ming prints, prints carving the awkward wandering in a state of weakness led to the decline of Qing Dynasty in China prints, while European prints greet new prosperous times.